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Quotes About Authority

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.
~ Sun Tzu
I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing
~ Donald A. Norman
It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.
~ Rod Paige
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
~ Charles Edison
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
~ Bertrand Russell
The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing
~ Damon Knight
The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
~ Thomas Sowell
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
~ Fanny Fern
Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.
~ Giulio Andreotti
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.
~ Tricia Helfer
I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire
~ Nicki Minaj
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented.
~ Unknown
Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.
~ Attila the Hun
I wanna rule my destiny.
~ Buju Banton
Control your fate or somebody else will
~ Heinrich von Pierer
You are the Master of your own Destiny
~ Sivananda
The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.
~ James Woods
We are the arbiters of our destiny.
~ Irina Tweedie
I'm not a prophet. I'm a destiny-changer. It's all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you've got the power.
~ Sun Ra
I want to be in control of my own destiny.
~ Ray LaMontagne
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~ Ambrose Bierce